What Would the Earth Be Like Without the Moon? Completely Bananas, Basically

Everyone knows that the Moon is mostly responsible for our oceans’ tides (everyone does know that, right?), but just what would happen to the Earth if we didn’t have the Moon? The answer is probably a lot crazier than you’d realize, because our Moon is the largest in the solar system relative to its host planet, and it’s made a lot of things we take for granted possible in the first place.